Background
The Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Public Health supports research using the Library’s resources for scholarly study of the history of medicine and public health with an emphasis on visual culture. It is intended specifically for a scholar in residence at the Library. Preference will be given to applications which focus on the use of visual materials held in the Library’s collections and in other area institutions. Applications from researchers whose projects engage with the history of health equity or healthspan are encouraged.
The Library holds a particularly rich collection of images related to the history of medicine and public health dating from the early modern era into the twentieth century. A diverse collection, including illustrated books, prints, broadsides, pamphlets, and printed medical ephemera, documents changes in clinical medicine and research, the evolution of medical practice, the history of public health and public responses to these developments. The collections form an extraordinary primary resource for scholars in history, popular culture, the sciences and social sciences, the history of printing and the graphic arts.
The Helfand Fellow is expected to spend at least four weeks in New York City, conducting research in the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Fellows are required to make a public presentation about their project at NYAM, to contribute a post for our blog, and to submit a final report on the research conducted at the Library by the end of the award period. All fellowship obligations must be completed during the calendar year for which the fellowship is awarded.
Eligibility Requirements
We invite applications from individuals of all backgrounds, academic disciplines, or academic status. Preference will be given to (1) those whose research will take advantage of resources that are uniquely available at NYAM, (2) individuals in the early stages of their careers, and (3) applications which include an emphasis on the use of visual materials held within the Library’s collections and elsewhere. To ensure a smooth fellowship experience, applicants must have independent legal authorization to remain in the United States for the full duration of the fellowship. Please note that NYAM is not a visa-granting institution and cannot provide visa sponsorship or immigration assistance. Applicants with any potential visa or immigration concerns are encouraged to review their eligibility carefully before applying.
Application Process and Instructions
Please read the instructions below to assist you in completing the application form. If you have questions about the instructions, the application process, or the Library’s collections, please call 212-822-7313 or send email to [email protected]. Because visual materials are sometimes difficult to access through the Library’s online catalog, applicants are encouraged to call or email for more information about the collections.
A complete application includes:
- One copy of the materials requested in the application
- Two letters of recommendation
Please submit your application electronically.
Email your materials as attachments to [email protected].
Attachments must be in Word, Adobe PDF, or Rich Text Format.
Please include the appropriate extension in filenames and give your application an easily understood name, i.e. “YourNameFellowshipApplication.pdf”
Letters of recommendation should be emailed as attachments to [email protected] by the recommender, not by the applicant.
Deadline
Current applications are for fellowships that may be used between January 1 and December 31, 2025. Applications are due by the end of the day on Friday, August 23, 2024. Letters of recommendation are due by the end of the day on Monday, August 26, 2024. Applicants will be notified of whether or not they have received a fellowship by Friday, October 11, 2024..
Award Information
Each Helfand fellow receives a stipend of $5,000 to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses for a flexible period between January 1 and December 31, 2025. The Helfand Fellow is expected to spend at least four weeks in New York City, working at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Besides completing a research project, each fellow will be expected to make a public presentation at NYAM, contribute a post to our blog, and submit a final report. All fellowship obligations must be completed during the calendar year for which the fellowship is awarded. Applicants should provide specific information in their proposals about the collection items they plan to use by including a separate bibliography of resources they intend to consult with their application materials.
The selection committee, comprising prominent historians and medical humanities scholars, will choose the fellow from the pool of applications. These fellowships are awarded directly to the individual applicant and not to the institution where he or she may normally be employed. None of the fellowship money is to be used for institutional overhead. There is a single application for the Klemperer and Helfand fellowships. Applicants do not need to specify for which award they are applying; the committee will make the decision about which fellowship would be most appropriate.
Publications
Any publications resulting from work supported by the Fellowships must acknowledge the assistance received from the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Copies of such publications should be submitted to the Library.
Contact information
Historical Collections
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 212-822-7313
Current & Previous Recipients
2025
Silvia Maria Marchiori, “The Renaissance of Ancient Surgical Instruments in Early Modern Images”
2024
Sheryl Anne Wombell, “The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in a Mid-seventeenth-century Network of Mobile Elites: Early Modern Recipe Itineraries”
2023
Sean Purcell, “Imaging Consumption: Seeing ‘The WhitePlague’ In American Medicine”
2022
Joseph Bishop, “Pharmaceutical Visions: A Visual Investigation into the Medical Mentalities and Expectations
that Shaped the Early Twentieth-Century US Pharmaceutical Industry”
2021
No Helfand Fellow
2020
Paul E. Sampson, “Ventilating the Empire: Environmental Machines in the British Atlantic World, 1700-1850”
2019
Matthew Davidson, “Health Under Occupation: Haitian Encounters with U.S. Imperial Medicine, 1915-1934”
2018
Julie Powell, “Body Politics: Gender and the Internationalization of Prosthetic Care, 1914-1925”
2017
Courtney Thompson, “The Criminal Race: Crime, Violence, and the Phrenological Imaginary In Nineteenth-century America”
2016
Daniel Goldberg, “Truth, Doubt and Objectivity: Early X-ray Experimentation and Use in New York City”
2014-2015
Laura Robson, “Using Vesalius: Adapting Images and Transforming Texts in Sixteenth Century Medical Manuals”
2013-2014
Samir Boumediene, “Appropriating the Medicinal Plants of Spanish America (1570-1750)”
2012-2013
Alessandro Laverda, “Anatomy and Myth: The Contest between Apollo and Marsyas in Anatomy Books of the Early Modern Age in Europe”
2011-2012
Cindy Stelmackowich, “Picturing Pathology: Morbid Anatomy Diagrams, Pathological Atlases and Disease, 1800-1840”
2010-2011
No Helfand Fellow
2009-2010
No Helfand Fellow
2008-2009
Kelina Gotman, “Zooanthropy”
2007-2008
Marni Kessler, “Anxiety and the Maternal Substitute: Edgar Degas’ New Orleans Paintings”
2006-2007
Mary Hunter, “Shared Visions? Representations of Bodies in late Nineteenth Century American and French Art and Medicine”
2005-2006
Sabine Arnaud, “Hysteria: Fictions and Politics of Truths”
2004-2005
Bryan Waterman, “Writing Yellow Fever in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York City”
2003-2004
Angus Fletcher, “Paracelsian Medicine and the Experience of Bodily Consciousness in Seventeenth-Century English Literature”
2002-2003
Vanessa Ryan, “The Material Mind: Victorian Physiological Psychology and the Narration of Consciousness”
2001-2002
Michael R. Blackie, “The Sensorium in Splints: Some Permutations of S. Weir Mitchell’s Use of Rest”
2000-2001
Richard A. Barney, “Eyeing the Divine: The Physiology of the Sublime in Early Modern Britain”
1999-2000
Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, “Powering the Body”
Dr. Ferdinand Valentine was elected a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine on January 2, 1896. He was a founder of the American Urological Association and its first secretary and third President. He was Professor of Genitourinary Diseases at the New York School of Clinical Medicine and made many contributions to the medical literature. His clinical appointments included Consulting Genitourinary Surgeon to the Manhattan State Hospital, to the West Side German Dispensary and the Red Cross Hospital. The Valentine Medal and Lectureship was created by the Valentine family to celebrate his many contributions to medicine.
Recipients
2019 Dr. Allen F. Morey
2018 Dr. Joseph A Smith, Jr.
2017 Dr. Robert C. Flanigan
2016 Dr.Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe
2015 Dr. Jerry G. Blaivas
Dr. William C. DeGroat
2014 Dr. Gerald H. Jordan
2013 Dr. Tom F. Lue
2012 Dr. Demetrius H. Bagley
2011 Dr. Alan J. Wein
2010 Dr. Jack McAninch
2009 Dr. Shlomo Raz
2008 Dr. Andrew Novick
2007 Dr. William Catalona
2006 Dr. Carl A. Olsson
2005 Dr. Joseph W. Segura
2004 Dr. Jean B. deKernion
2003 Dr. Donald Coffey
2002 Dr. Lowell R. King
Dr. Alan B. Retik
2001 Dr. Patrick C. Walsh
2000 Dr. E. Daracott Vaughan, Jr.
1999 Dr. Donald Skinner
1998 Dr. William R. Fair
1997 Dr. Emil Tanagho
1996 Dr. Paul Peters
1995 Dr. Frank Hinman, Jr.
1994 Dr. John P. Donohue
1993 Dr. C. Eugene Carlton, Jr.
Dr. John T. Grayhack
Dr. Jay Y. Gillenwater
1992 Dr. Richard Turner-Warwick
1991 Dr. Thomas Stamey
1990 Dr. Kurt Amplatz
Dr. Wilfrido R. Castenada-Zuniga
Dr. Ralph V. Clayman
Dr. Robert P. Miller
Dr. Arthur D. Smith
1989 Dr. Fathollah K. Mostofi
1988 Dr. Joseph J. Kaufman
1987 Dr. George R. Nagamatsu
1986 Dr. Pablo A. Morales
1985 Dr. William Hardy Hendren, III
1984 Dr. Hugh Judge Jewett
1983 Dr. John Kingsley Lattimer
1982 Dr. Wilet Francis Whitmore, Jr.
1981 Mr. William P. Didusch
1980 Dr. Willard E. Goodwin
1979 Dr. Meyer M. Melicow
1978 Dr. David Innes Williams
1977 Dr. Eugene Myron Bricker
1976 Dr. Reed Nesbit
1975 Dr. Sven I. Seldinger
1974 Dr. Victor F. Marshall
1973 Dr. Alfred Jost
1972 Dr. Rubin Flocks
1971 Dr. Robert Hotchkiss
1970 Dr. John Harrison
Dr. David Hume
Dr. John Merrill
Dr. Joseph E. Murray
1969 Dr. William Kolf
1968 Dr. Terence Millin
1967 Dr. Alexander B. Gutman
1966 Dr. Theodore McCann Davis
1965 Dr. Moses Swik
1964 Dr. Harry Goldblatt
1963 Dr. Meredith F. Campbell
1962 Dr. Charles B. Huggins
Nahum J. Winer was a respected research and clinical cardiologist. Along with his distinguished work for the New York County and New York State Medical Societies, the staff of Lenox Hill Hospital, and other organizations including the AMA and the New York Cardiological Society, he served as an officer of the The New York Academy of Medicine for many years. His colleagues and patients remember him as an enthusiastic researcher and dedicated physician. His family has created this lectureship in celebration of his many contributions to medicine.
Recipients
2017
Paul Kligfield, MD
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
“Sudden Death in Rome,1705: Giovanni Lancisi, Pope Clement XI, and the Tale
of a Book “
2015
Jeffrey S. Borer, MD
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Heart Rate Modulation: Is it Therapeutic and if so for Whom?
2014
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD
Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital
Is Hospitalization Toxic to Patients and Does it Cause a Post-Hospital Syndrome? Time to Rethink the Hospital Experience.
2013
Michael A. Weber, MD
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Unresolved Issues in Diagnosing and Treating Hypertension: Is Renal Sympathectomy An Answer?
2012
Valentin Fuster, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Transitions from Cardiovascular Disease to Health (2012-2020): The Challenge of Identifying Subclinical Disease
The annual Lilianna Sauter Lecture, established in 2000, addresses a topic in medical ethics. Lilianna Sauter, MD, was a long-time Fellow of the Academy, where she was active in the Section on Dermatology. Dr. Sauter received her medical degree from the University of Zurich, and shortly thereafter began her internship at Knickerbocker Hospital, New York, followed by a residency at St. Luke’s Hospital, New York. She was a visiting Fellow in Dermatology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Sauter was a dedicated physician and Associate Professor at Mount Sinai Medical School.
In addition to her professional activities, Dr. Sauter had a keen interest in history, and served as an officer of the Friends of the Rare Book Room at the Academy. She also served as liaison consultant to the Academy’s 1993 program “Paracelsus: Renaissance Physician.”
Contact Information
The New York Academy of Medicine Library
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 212-822-7313
Previous Lecturers
2013-2014
David Herzberg, PhD
University at Buffalo
The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th-Century America
2012-2013
David Rosner, PhD, Columbia University and Gerald Markowitz, PhD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children
2011-2012
Susan M. Reverby, PhD
Wellesley College
Escaping Melodramas: Historical Thinking and the Public Health Service Studies in Tuskegee and Guatamala
2010-2011
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, MD, MSc, PhD
University of Montreal; Commentary by Jeffrey O’Malley, Director of the HIV/AIDS Group in the United Nations Development Programme
Global Health: Historical Perspectives II: The Republic of Therapy: AIDS in West Africa
This lecture was sponsored in part by the New York Council on the Humanities
2009-2010
M. Susan Lindee, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Gut Feelings and Technical Precision: Thinking about Cystic Fibrosis
2008-2009
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Changing Perspectives on Health Aging, Part IV: The Estrogen Elixir: Women, Hormone Replacement, and the Predicament of Aging
2007-2008
Susan L. Smith, PhD
University of Alberta
Medicine in Wartime, Part IV: Place, Health and War: World War II Mustard Gas Experiments in Transnational Perspective
2006-2007
Harriet Washington
Independent Scholar
American Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans
2005-2006
Amy Fairchild and Ron Bayer
Columbia University
The Searching Eyes of Government: Public Health Surveillance in Twentieth-Century America
2004-2005
Susan Wolf
University of Minnesota Law School
Governing Reproductive Medicine and Reprogenetics: A Daunting Challenge
2003-2004
Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Electroconvulsive Therapy and the Concept of Progress in Medical History
2002-2003
Paul Lombardo, PhD, JD
University of Virginia
Better for all the World: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell
2001-2002
Robert Proctor, PhD
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Was there such a thing as “good Nazi science”? German struggles against cancer, 1933-45
Each year The New York Academy of Medicine’s Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene recognizes a prominent specialist in psychiatry, neurology or mental hygiene by presenting The Thomas William Salmon Award for outstanding contributions to these fields. On the same occasion, The Thomas William Salmon Lecturer, chosen from among the nation’s most talented investigators, is invited to share his or her research with the New York area psychiatric community. The Salmon Lecture, first given in 1932, and the Salmon Medal, first awarded in 1942, are presented in memory of Thomas W. Salmon (1876-1927), a gifted and beloved physician whose contribution to the cause of the mentally ill and distressed was one of the most notable of his generation.
Previous Lecturers and Medalists
Lecturers
- 2018 Elizabeth A. Phelps, PhD
- 2017 David J. Anderson, PhD
- 2016 E. Fuller Torrey, MD
- 2015 Bruce S. McEwen, PhD
- 2013 Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD
- 2012 B.J. Casey, PhD
- 2011 Helen S. Mayberg, MD
- 2010 Huda Akil, PhD and Stanley Watson, MD, PhD
- 2009 Michael Gazzaniga, PhD
- 2008 Michael J. Meaney, PhD
- 2007 Paul Greengard, PhD
- 2006 Jonathan D. Cohen, MD, PhD
- 2005 Edwin H. Cook, Jr., MD
- 2004 Nora D. Volkow, MD
- 2003 Kenneth L. Davis, MD
- 2001 Kenneth S. Kendler, MD
- 2000 Michael I. Posner, PhD
- 1999 Charles P. O’Brien, MD, PhD
- 1998 Patricia Goldman-Rakic, PhD
- 1997 Marcus E. Raichle, MD
- 1996 Myron A. Hofer, MD
- 1995 Paul Greengard, PhD
- 1994 Philip S. Holzman, PhD
- 1993 Joseph T. Coyle, MD
- 1992 Aaron T. Beck, MD
- 1991 Floyd E. Bloom, MD
- 1990 Hebert Weiner, MD
- 1989 Marvin Stein, MD
- 1989 Robert Ader, PhD
- 1988 Jerome Kagan, PhD
- 1987 Torsten M. Wiesel, MD
- 1986 Albert J. Stunkard, MD
- 1985 Eric R. Kandel, MD
- 1984 Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth, PhD
- 1983 Lee N. Robins, PhD
- 1982 Louis Sokoloff, MD
- 1981 Arvid E. Carlsson, MD
- 1980 Robert N. Butler, MD
- 1979 Michael L. Rutter, MD
- 1978 Isaac M. Marks, MD
- 1977 Solomon H. Snyder, MD
- 1976 John Romano, MD
- 1975 Walle J. H. Nauta, MD, PhD
- 1974 William Goldfarb, MD, PhD
- 1973 Lyman Wynne, MD, PhD
- 1972 Julius Axelrod, PhD
- 1971 Neal E. Miller, PhD
- 1970 Kenneth Keniston, PhD
Medalists
- 2015 Bruce S. McEwen, PhD
- 2013 Kenneth Kendler, MD
- 2012 Michael I. Posner, PhD
- 2011 Max Fink, MD
- 2010 Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD
- 2009 Myrna Weissman, PhD
- 2008 Fritz A. Henn, PhD, MD
- 2007 Aaron T. Beck, MD
- 2007 Otto F. Kernberg, MD
- 2006 Thomas R. Insel, MD
- 2005 Judith L. Rapoport, MD
- 2004 Floyd E. Bloom, MD
- 2003 Jack D. Barchas, MD
- 2003 Erick R. Kandel, MD
- 2001 Solomon H. Snyder, MD
- 2000 Robert L. Spitzer, MD
- 1999 Samuel P. Guze, MD
- 1998 Albert J. Stunkard, MD
- 1997 David A. Hamburg, MD
- 1996 Melvin Sabshin, MD
- 1996 Herbert Pardes, MD
- 1995 Leon Eisenberg, MD
- 1994 Heinz Lehmann, MD
- 1993 Donald F. Klein, MD
- 1992 Gerald L. Klerman, MD
- 1991 Shervert H. Frazier, MD
- 1990 Daniel X. Freedman, MD
- 1988 Professor Sir Martin Roth
- 1987 Julius Axelrod, PhD
- 1986 Jerome D. Frank, MD, PhD
- 1985 Eric Stromgren, MD
- 1984 John Romano, MD
- 1984 John Bowbly, MD
- 1983 Lawrence C. Kolb, MD
- 1982 Seymour S. Kety, MD
- 1981 Eli Robins, MD
- 1980 Ewald W. Busse, MD
- 1979 George Tarjan, MD
- 1978 Howard F. Hunt, PhD
- 1978 John C. Eberhart, PhD
- 1978 Robert A. Cohen, MD
- 1977 Joseph Zubin, PhD
- 1977 F.C. Redlich, MD
- 1976 David McKenzie Rioch, MD
- 1975 David Blain, MD
- 1974 Leo Kanner, MD
- 1974 Walter E. Barton, MD
- 1973 H. Houston Merritt, MD
- 1973 Lauretta Bender, MD
- 1972 Francis J. Braceland, MD
- 1971 S. Bernard Wortis, MD
- 1971 David Shakow, MD
- 1971 John Whitehorn, MD
- 1970 M. Ralph Kaufman, MD
- 1970 Roy R. Ginker, Sr., MD
- 1970 Oskar Deithelm, MD
- 1969 Harry C. Solomon, MD
- 1969 Titus Harris, MD
- 1969 Clarence B. Farrar, MD
- 1969 Franklin G. Ebaugh, MD
- 1968 Nolan D.C. Lewis, MD
- 1968 Karl Bowman, MD
- 1967 Karl A. Menninger, MD
- 1967 David M. Levy, MD
- 1967 Stanley Cobb, MD
- 1966 Nathaniel Kleitman, PhD
- 1966 Kenneth E. Appel, MD
- 1965 Lawrence Kolb, MD
- 1963 Robert H. Felix, MD
- 1963 Earl D. Bond, MD
- 1945 Joseph W. Moore, MD
- 1942 Adolf Meyer, MD
The Lattimer Lecture was endowed by John Kinsley Lattimer, PhD, in 1986. An internationally known urologist, educator and a collector, he was Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He attended Columbia University through all of his schooling, published hundreds of papers, and was known for establishing the field of pediatric urology.
Contact Information
The New York Academy of Medicine Library
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 212-822-7313
Previous Lecturers
2012-2013
Carla Keirns, MD, PhD
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Putting Asthma on the Map: Weather, Pollen, Pollution and the Geography of Risk
2011-2012
Ira Rutkow, MD, DrPH
University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey
The Civil War: How Did It Impact Medicine in America?
2010-2011
Jeffrey M. Jentzen, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Death Investigation in America
2009-2010
Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD
Queens University, Ontario
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World
2008-2009
John W. Rowe, MD
Columbia University
Changing Perspectives on Healthy Aging, Part II: The Development of the Concept of Successful Aging
2007-2008
Alan Kraut, PhD
American University
‘Mirrors of the Culture’: Jewish Hospitals in the History of American Health Care
2006-2007
David S. Barnes, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
2005-2006
James H. Jones, PhD
The Decision to Put David into “the Bubble:” Treatment or Research?
2004-2005
Howard Markel
University of Michigan
When Germs Travel: Epidemics and Immigrants in the 20th Century
This event was sponsored in part by the New York Council for the Humanities.
2003-2004
John Harley Warner, PhD
Yale University
Aesthetics, Identity, and the Grounding of Modern Medicine
2002-2003
John Efron, PhD
University of California—Berkeley
Medicine, Modernity, and the German Jews
2001-2002
Steven Feierman, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Traditional Medicine in Africa: Colonial Transformations
The Glorney-Raisbeck Award is presented annually to a clinician or basic scientist in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The first Glorney-Raisbeck Award was presented posthumously in 1988 to Milton J. Raisbeck, MD, an exceptional cardiologist involved in the advancement of medical education and research. Since then this level of achievement has been reflected in an outstanding series of Glorney-Raisbeck awardees.
Recipients
2016
Andrew R. Marks, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Wrestling With the Mysteries and Miseries of Heart Failure and Cardiac Arrhythmias
2010
Bertram Pitt, MD
University of Michigan School of Medicine
The Role of Aldosterone Blockade in Cardiovascular Disease
2009
Christine Seidman, MD
Brigham Women’s Hospital
The Impact of Genetics on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
2008
Arthur J. Moss, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center
Long QT Syndrome: A Paradigm for Understanding the Genetics of Cardiac Arrhythmias
2007
Helen H. Hobbs, MD
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Going to Extremes to Find Genes for Cardiovascular Disease
2006
Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., MD
Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Vascular Endothelium: Nature’s Container for Blood – New Insights into its Pathobiology
2005
Michael E. DeBakey, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
The Development of Cardiovascular Surgery: An Overview
2004
Michael S. Brown, MD and Joseph L. Goldstein, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The Metabolic Syndrome: A Vicious Cycle
2003
Roman DeSanctis, MD
Harvard Medical School
Then, Now, and Beyond: The Amazing Advancements in Cardiology Over the Last Fifty Years
2002
Ketty Schwartz, PhD
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Ministry of Research and New Technologies The Cardiac Myocyte: From Gene Defects to Cellular Therapy
2001
Aldo R. Castaneda, MD, PhD
Childrens’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
Congenital Heart Disease: Lessons from a Historical Prespective
2000
Victor A. McKusick, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine in the Post Genomic Era
1999
Eugene Braunwald, MD
Partners HealthCare System, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals
Congestive Heart Failure: 1950 ? 2000
1998
Aaron Marcus, MD
New York Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Thromboregulation ? A Novel Approach to Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases
1997
Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Genetic Manipulation of Myocardial Beta-adrenergic Receptors and Receptor Kinases: New Approaches to Improving Cardiac Performance
1996
Jan L. Breslow, MD
Rockefeller University
1995
Russell Ross, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Events in Atherogenesis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications
1994
Richard Gorlin, MD
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Hydraulics as the Key to Understanding Valvular Heart Disease
1993
Judah Folkman, MD
Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School
1992
John Kirklin, MD
University of Alabama
1991
William Ganz, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine
1990
Anthony Damato, MD
Staten Island Public Health Service Hospital
1988
Milton Raisbeck, MD
Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals Posthumous recipient of the first Glorney-Raisbeck Award
In 1901, the widow of Edward N. Gibbs, a patient of Dr. Edward Janeway, established the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Endowment to award a prize to a physician in practice in the United States for the best original work in the etiology, pathology, and treatment of the diseases of the kidney. The first awardee was Donald W. Seldin, MD, William Buchanan Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
The New York Academy of Medicine seeks nominations of physician scientists who have dedicated their careers to advances in nephrology or are presently making cutting-edge discoveries in the field. Candidates must hold an MD degree and be citizens of the United States to be considered for this award. The distinguished recipient of this honor will present his or her research at a lecture before a broad audience of scientists and clinicians, to be presented virtually in the fall of 2020. The award recipient will receive the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Medal and an honorarium of $7,500; all travel expenses associated with the lecture will be paid by the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial Endowment. It is expected that the manuscript from this lecture will be submitted to a scholarly journal for publication.
Deserving individuals may be nominated by submitting a detailed letter, not to exceed three pages, outlining the importance of the candidate’s work and explaining why his or her research embodies seminal and significant contributions to the field of nephrology. Individuals who have been nominated previously but not selected may be nominated again, but a new submission is required. The candidate’s curriculum vitae, and the names of three persons from whom references may be solicited, must accompany the letter of nomination. The combined materials must be forwarded as a single PDF document to the following email: [email protected]
Contact information
The New York Academy of Medicine
Office of Trustee and Fellowship Affairs
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10029-5202
E-mail: f[email protected]
Previous Recipients
2018
David J. Salant, MD, BCh
Chief of Section of Nephrology and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
“Serendipity and Discovery of the Membranous Nephropathy Autoantigen”
2016
Ronald Falk, MD, FACP, FASN
Chair of the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of North Carolina
“ANCA Vasculitis and Human Autoimmunity”
2012
Qais Al-Awqati, MB, ChB
Robert F. Loeb Professor of Medicine, The Jay I. Meltzer Professor of Nephrology & Hypertension Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics Columbia University Development of Nephrons and Kidneys: A Scenic Tour
2010
Eli A. Friedman, MD, MACP, FACP
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Medicine State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn Pandemic Diabetes and Diabetic Kidney Disease
2008
Maurice B. Burg, MD
Principal Investigator National Institutes of Health Living with Salt
2006
Franklin H. Epstein, MD
William Applebaum Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Senior Physician Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Preeclampsia
2004
Gerhard H. Giebisch, MD
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine Physiology and Pathophysiology of Renal Potassium Excretion
2002
Saulo Klahr, MD
John E. & Adaline Simon Professor of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine The Role of Vasoactive Compounds, Cytokines and Growth Factors in Renal Fibrosis
2000
Robert W. Schrier, MD
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine Unifying Hypothesis of Body Fluid Volume Regulation: Implications for Cardiac Failure and Cirrhosis
1998
Donald W. Seldin, MD
William Buchanan Chair of Internal Medicine Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, University of Texas Renal Mechanisms for the Pathogenesis of Hypokalemia and Alkalosis
The annual Iago Galdston Lecture honors Dr. Galdston, a psychiatrist and educator who dedicated his career to enhancing the health of individuals and the community. Established in 1989, this annual event is dedicated to bringing a distinguished scholar in areas of inquiry related to the historical, philosophical, and humanistic aspects of medicine to share important information with the fellowship and guests of the Academy.
Dr. Galdston was born in Kishinev, Russia, and received his medical training in New York and Vienna. Dr. Galdston joined the Professional staff of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928, creating what would become the Academy’s Medical Information Bureau, which disseminated important information to the public and the press concerning. His column, “Iago Galdston for the New York Academy of Medicine,” published in 200 newspapers, was the authoritative source for medical information to the public. Dr. Galdston lived to be 94, and upon his death in 1989, his family created the Iago Galdston Lectureship at The New York Academy of Medicine.
Contact Information
The New York Academy of Medicine Library
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 212-822-7313
Previous Lecturers
2014-2015
Hilary Aquino, PhD
Albright College ‘Making Public Health Contagious’ — The Life and Career of Leona Baumgartner, M.D., Ph.D
2013-2014
Heather Varughese John, MD, PhD
Who is Dr. X? Physicians in Training and the Mass-Market Memoir
2012-2013
Mark Largent, PhD
Michigan State University
Vaccine: The Modern American Debate
2011-2012
Barron Lerner, MD, PhD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900
2010-2011
Leslie J. Reagan, PhD
University of Illinois
Dangerous Pregnancies: German Measles (Rubella), Mothers, and Disabilities in Modern America
2009-2010
Steven J. Peitzman, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Bleed or Not Bleed Mrs. Camac? A 19th Century Medical Decision
2008-2009
Jacqueline Wolf, PhD
Ohio University
Historical Perspectives on Reducing Maternal Mortality, Part II: Despite the Risk: Lay and Medical Perceptions of Obstetric Anesthesia
2007-2008
Arleen M. Tuchman
Vanderbilt University
Diabetes: A Cultural History
2006-2007
Susan Lederer, PhD
Yale University
Bombs, Blood, and Bio-Markers: Medical Preparedness in Cold War America
2005-2006
Janet Golden
Rutgers University
The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
2004-2005
Judy Wu
Ohio State University
Modernizing Chinatown: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Tourism
2003-2004
Bert Hansen, PhD
Baruch College
Medical History for the Masses: Heroes of Medicine in Children’s Comic Books of the 1940s
2002-2003
Randall M. Packard, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
What Kind of a Problem is Malaria? The Past and Future of Malaria Control
2001-2002
James Mohr, PhD
University of Oregon
The Burning of Honolulu’s Chinatown: Plague, Fire, Bacteriology, and Public Health Policy at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
The Howard Fox Lecture carries on the legacy of Howard Fox, the founder and first president of the American Academy of Dermatology. Dr. Fox was also the first president of the American Board of Dermatology. He served for 13 years as professor and head of dermatology at the New York University School of Medicine (1925–1938) and 10 years as Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Dermatology.
Recipients
2019
Dirk Elston, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
“Skin Signs of Systemic Disease”
2018
Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital
“Case-Based Pearls from the Dermatology Rheumatology Clinic”
2017
Edward W. Cowen, MD, MHSc
Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute
“Autoinflammation and the Skin”
2016
Wilma F. Bergfeld, MD
The Cleveland Clinic
“Androgens and Hair Disorders”
2015
Kenneth Tomecki, MD
The Cleveland Clinic
“What’s New in Dermatological Therapy”
2014
Amy Paller, MS, MD
Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine
“Update on Genetic Skin Disorders and Their Management”
2013
Jean L. Bolognia, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
“Signature Nevi”
2012
Torello Lotti, MD. PhD
Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy
“Vitiligo: What’s New – Update in 2012”
2011
Babar K. Rao, MD, FAAD – UMDNJ
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
“How Best to Manage a Pigmented Lesion”
2010
Patricia Lois Myskowski, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
“Cutaneous Lymphomas: An Update”
2009
William D. James, MD
University of Pennsylvania
“Newer Skin Signs of Rheumatologic Disease”